Real-Life Stories

Though I was young, this didn’t exempt me from having problems: the intense hatred for my brother, the damaging opinion I had of myself, my lack of identity in society as a...

My house was a hellhole. My parents used to fight because my dad would come from clubbing, drunk.

“You’d think I was bad. If you saw me, I’d definitely have you fooled. I sure looked like I knew what I was doing.

“You have potential Sama, you just don’t use it.” I get why teachers were disappointed in me. I was a good kid; I was smart. But I never really delivered...

“My story is different from most you may have heard before. Unlike many others who only realised the truth after making all the mistakes they did, I was the opposite.

According to research, children raised by single mothers are twice more likely to misbehave than those born into traditional two-parent families.

Terror, sadness, and fear were all I felt as a child growing up. I would get bullied day after day at school.

In the distance, I could hear the police helicopters and the vicious barks of their guard dogs.

“The best way to describe my life was basically this: a living hell. I was depressed, alcoholic, suicidal, angry, rebellious, arrogant, stubborn, and the list is endless. I became a ticking time bomb...

Growing up, I had a good and loving family. I was not spoilt but I didn’t lack the necessities of life. However, little did anyone know that I had this void in...